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Diaspora as translation and decolonisation /

This innovative study engages critically with existing conceptualisations of diaspora, arguing that if diaspora is to have analytical purchase, it should illuminate a specific angle of migration or migrancy. To reveal the much-needed transformative potential of the concept, the book looks specifical...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Demir, Ipek (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front matter
  • Cover
  • Diaspora as translation and decolonisation
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface and acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • 1 Theories of diaspora and their limitations
  • Diaspora theorised as an ideal type: 'Diaspora as a being'
  • Diaspora theorised through hybridity and as subjectivity: 'Diaspora as a becoming'
  • Diaspora of diaspora: An unwelcome phenomenon?
  • 2 Diaspora as translation
  • Translation studies and diaspora
  • The lure of translation for diaspora
  • Diaspora as rewriting and transformation
  • Diaspora as erasure and exclusion
  • Diaspora as tension between foreignisation and domestication
  • 3 Diaspora as decolonisation: 'Making a fuss' in diaspora and in the homeland
  • Accounting for others' beliefs: Vertical fallacy, anthropology and translation
  • Challenging vertical fallacies
  • Diaspora as Global South in the Global North: Undoing colonisation
  • Radical remembering
  • Radical inclusion
  • Radical remembering and inclusion versus the rhetoric of 'social inclusion'
  • 4 Translations and decolonisations of the Kurdish diaspora
  • Kurdish diaspora in Europe
  • Methods
  • Rewriting, domesticating and foreignising: Translating the Kurdish struggle
  • Undoing colonisation in diaspora: Kurdish transnational indigenous resistance
  • 5 Backlash to diaspora in the Global North
  • Anti-multiculturalism as an exclusivist national identity
  • The discourse of a 'left-behind'/'traditional' working class as an exclusivist national identity
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Index